Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Jun 22, 2006 – Jul 31, 2006
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RES Magazine — Short Profile
Jul 31, 2006
Holly Willis wrote a short profile on me in the July/August 2006 issue of RES Magazine.
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The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex: Avoiding Ender's Folly
Jul 20, 2006
ACE2006 Keynote: The Military Industrial Light and Magic Complex
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Jul 19, 2006
MOBILE ASIA COMPETITION 2006:
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Jul 16, 2006
Just saw on Nicolas’ place that an early beta (what’s the difference between any beta anymore..) Jyri Engestrom and his posse’s Jaiku rich presence application for Series 60 2nd edition devices has been released..very nice. I just downloaded the client to this N70 + T-Mobile I’ve been poking around with and it makes…
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Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup)
Jul 15, 2006
I’ve started working on a bit of summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for realtime mobile gaming. (Follow the link on the Flickr photo page to the URL you can load in your Google Earth client to see the game board in its current state.)
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Jun 30, 2006
Once, my mentor and dissertation advisor Donna Haraway mentioned in a conversation that she wished she could better police the way her writings were taken up. I only vaguely understood what she meant at the time.
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Jun 29, 2006
A project that Carolyn Strauss and I proposed, to do in collaboration with graphic designer and artist Zipora Fried received a Rhizome Commission! We’re pretty excited. We’ve been chatting around the project topic basically since we first met a couple of years ago now.
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Jun 23, 2006
This is perhaps the most disturbing spam I’ve ever received. It purports to be from a soldier in Iraq who is part of an underground syndicate stealing booty (“consignments”) and selling it on the open market. Maybe they think I’d stow it in the back shed until such time as the killings and day-to-day unrest settles…
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Nordichi Workshop Call: Near Field Interactions
Jun 22, 2006
Workshop: Near field interactions This is a call for proposals for a workshop on user-centred interactions with the internet of things at Nordichi 2006, October 14 and 15, 2006 in Oslo, Norway. http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/
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